When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team … that’s when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.
JOE DIMAGGIOI think there are some players born to play ball.
More Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, ‘”That’s nice.” It’s the kiss of death.
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I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
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I’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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I thought he had been shot.
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I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.
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We need a hit, so here I go.
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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
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If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
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The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don’t want to disappoint him.
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Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.
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The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
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You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.
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Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn’t. My number was up.
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